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. 2012 Jul-Sep;34(3):204–217. doi: 10.4103/0253-7176.106012

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Frida Kahlo's painting “broken column” where she depicted her spine as a broken marble column in the background of multiple nails driven into other parts of her naked body, giving her the continual undignifying pain. She told others “I am disintegration” Frida Kahlo, “La columna rota”, 1944. Oil on canvas mounted on rigid fiber, 16”×12”, Collection Museo Dolores Olmedo Patino, Mexico City